The German sniper was very cunning. After firing a shot, he did not fire a second shot, but instead retracted into the bounce crater, leaving Matve and the others unable to do anything to him.
A very embarrassing scene was formed on the battlefield: the German artillery knew that there were Soviet snipers on the battlefield, but they could not find their hiding place; the German snipers knew where Matvi and their location, but his retreat was blocked and he could not notify the artillery troops to shell Matvi and theirs.
The three German officers and soldiers hiding behind the jeep were in a dilemma. The position here is almost 100 meters away. If they run over, they will definitely be killed by the Soviet snipers. But if they continue to stay here, they don’t know how long it will take to escape.
Just when the battlefield was in a deadlock, the second battalion commander called Bindasov to the complaint. After hearing this, the colonel said coldly: "I understand. I will tell you when I come up with a handling opinion."
After hanging up the second battalion commander, he called the first battalion headquarters. As soon as he heard Jetrov's voice coming from the receiver, he immediately asked straight to the point: "Comrade Captain, I heard that something unpleasant happened to you and the second battalion and the third battalion today. I wonder if this is not the case?"
Hearing Bindasov's question, Jetrov knew that the second battalion commander had made his report in front of him, and quickly replied: "Yes, Comrade Commander, there was a little unpleasantness in the battle for the sniper position."
"I also heard," Bindasov, after Jetrov finished speaking, he continued to ask: "I heard that the joint sniper team of the Second Battalion and the Third Battalion were destroyed under the joint attack of German artillery and snipers, and you did not take any action to counter the enemy. Is this true?"
"Yes, Comrade Commander, this is the case." Jetrov thought that the matter had reached this point anyway, so he simply admitted: "The German army had only one sniper in front of the position. If we exposed the machine gun fire point on the position in order to eliminate him and attracted German artillery coverage, it would be more than worth the effort."
Before Bindasov could speak, he heard someone asking behind him: "Comrade Colonel, who are you talking to?"
Bindasov turned his head and saw that the person who asked him was Sokov. He quickly handed the microphone to his left hand, raised his hand to salute, and then said, "Report to the division commander, I am talking to Captain Jetrov, the acting battalion commander of the first battalion."
Before entering the door, Sokov vaguely heard the conversation between Bindasov and Jetrov, but with just a few words, he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he stretched out his hand to Bindasov and said to him: "Give me the microphone, I want to talk to Captain Jetrov."
After talking to Jetrov, Sokov figured out what happened and said to the microphone: "Comrade Captain, you did a good job. You can't easily expose the firepower position on the position for a sniper. If we attract revenge from the German artillery fire, we will suffer a great loss."
After putting down the phone, Sokov turned to Bindasov and said, "Comrade Colonel, although our snipers achieved good results yesterday, they are not professional snipers. When facing well-trained snipers in the German army, they will inevitably suffer a great loss. It seems that not only do they need to replace special guns for them, but also organize them to conduct relevant training."
"Comrade Commander, please be honest." After Sokov finished speaking, he said in confusion: "Although more than 30 German soldiers were eliminated in yesterday's sniper operation, if we want to finally resolve the battle, our main force and the enemy still need to engage in a face-to-face formal decisive battle with each other."
When Sokov saw that Bindasov still did not pay attention to snipers at this moment, he couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with him. Sokov's mind was that in a few months, the Battle of Stalingrad would begin. If his troops were transferred to that city, in addition to regular combat, more time would be a contest between the snipers on both sides. At this moment, it was just a matter of taking advantage of the opportunity to confront the German army on the Jizdra River to train a group of snipers.
Therefore, he said to Bindasov with a firm attitude: "Comrade Colonel, judging from the results of yesterday, it is completely necessary to form a sniper team. The joint sniper teams of the Second and Third Battalions were eliminated, which was purely an accident. You call them immediately and ask them to organize another new team to continue the sniper mission against the German army."
After more than an hour of stalemate on the battlefield, the enemy hiding behind the jeep finally couldn't hold back. The German driver crawled towards the position in a crawling posture. The purpose of his doing this was to throw a stone to ask for directions to see if the Soviet sniper had left; the second was that he had been outside the jeep for too long and was almost frozen, and he wanted to warm up the position as soon as possible.
Matvey saw the German driver's butt sticking high, crawling towards the position like a maggot. He did not shoot immediately, but watched the driver's crawling performance with interest. When the driver was only twenty meters away from the position, Matvey aimed at the driver's butt and fired. The bullet accurately hit the driver's butt, and the huge impact force led him to roll on the spot. After he stopped, the pain from the wound made him scream.
A German soldier who was staying in fortification saw the driver being shot and fell not far from him, and quickly bent down and emerged from the trench. After he came to the driver, he grabbed one of the arm of the other party and pulled him in the direction of the trench. Matvey sneered, aimed at the German soldier and fired a shot, which made him fall to the ground.
Matvey turned his head and looked at the jeep that was still parked on the open ground. He could vaguely see two German officers and soldiers hiding behind. He thought for a while, then took out an armor-piercing incendiary bomb from his backpack, pressed it into the rifle's magazine, and aimed at the jeep mailbox in the distance. He had not used the armor-piercing incendiary bomb just now because he was not sure that he could accurately hit the target in the distance. Now they did not want to delay with the Germans anymore, so they decided to give it a try.
After Matve pulled the trigger again, the armor-piercing incendiary bomb hit the fuel tank accurately, and the jeep was instantly blown into a fireball. A German soldier hiding behind the car was blown away and fell heavily to the ground, and then lay there motionless. Another officer covered in fire screamed and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the fire on his body. Matve fired a shot at the rolling figure, completely ending his pain.
Chapter completed!